CONTENTS

1. Cordell_2020_PoliticalCosts.R = R code used to produce all tables and figures in the manuscript

2. Cordell_2020_PoliticalCosts.csv = 145 country observations, representing every country where the party in office at the time of participation in CIA Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) remained the same

- ccode: Correlates of War numeric code
- iso3c: ISO3 character code	
- country: Country name	
- election.year: Year of election following the revelation of participation in RDI (or median revelation year 2006 for countries that did not participate)	
- revelation.year: Year of the revelation of participation in RDI 
- revelation.election.year: Year of the election and revelation of participation in RDI (if they took place during the same year)	
- election.id: Election ID extracted from NELDA 4.0 dataset	
- electoral.defeat: Dummy variable indicating whether the party in office lost at the election following the revelation of participation in RDI (or median revelation year 2006 for countries that did not participate)	
- solschangedum_any_rev: Dummy variable indicating whether there was a change in source of leadership support following the revelation of participation in RDI (or median revelation year 2006 for countries that did not participate) 	
- electoral.defeat.1996: Dummy variable indicating whether the party in office lost at the election a decade before the median revelation year 2006 (1996)	
- electoral.defeat.prior: Dummy variable indicating whether the party in office lost at the election between 2001-2005 while participation in RDI was ongoing but had not yet been revealed 	
- revelation: Dummy variable indicating whether the country was described as cooperating in the RDI program by the Open Society Foundations (2013)	
- left.orientation: Dummy variable indicating whether the party in office at the election following the revelation of participation in RDI (or median revelation year 2006 for countries that did not participate) was left of center	
- right.orient: Dummy variable indicating whether the party in office at the election following the revelation of participation in RDI (or median revelation year 2006 for countries that did not participate) was right of center 	
- regime.type: Continuous variable measuring the country's level of electoral democracy
- election.proximity: Dummy variable indicating whether the country's first revelation of participation in RDI took place during an election year or the year after	
- casualties.log: Natural logarithm of the total number of casualties incurred by the country in Operating Enduring Freedom and the International Security Assistance Forces at the time of the election since the party had been in office	
- terrorism.log: Natural logarithm of the total number of transnational terrorism incidents occurring within a country at the time of the election since the party had been in office	
- economic.crisis: Dummy variable indicating whether the media reported that the country had an economic crisis at the election	
- term.limit: Dummy variable indicating whether the incumbent's party had reached their term limit at the election	
- democ: Dummy variable indicating whether the country's level of electoral democracy is above the 75% quantile for the matched sample	
- nondemoc: Dummy variable indicating whether the country's level of electoral democracy is below the 75% quantile for the matched sample	
- us.bases: Continuous variable of the total number of U.S. bases located in the country	
- us.trade.gdp: Continuous variable of the total number of U.S. imports and exports in the country divided by GDPPC	
- matched: Dummy variable indicating whether the country is included in the matched sample	
- distance: Distance measure from Coarsened Exact Matching procedure	
- weights: Weights measure from Coarsened Exact Matching procedure	
- subclass: Subclass measure from Coarsened Exact Matching procedure